Virginia Tech - Guns or Drugs?

There is now a raging debate over whether guns should again be banned after the terrible slaughter at Virginia Tech.

Yet if students were allowed to protect themselves, this may not have happened.

There are reports that the gunman may have been on anti-depressants. So if there should be an uproar, perhaps it should be about the over-use of psychotropic drugs that have been shown to act as a catalyst for suicide and murder.

CBS News reported on Monday, April 16 - the same day - that 100,000 people a year die from hospital mistakes, yet 42% of MDs say they would not admit to their mistakes. This does not include those who die every year from suicide and homicide related to these same drugs - Prozac, etc.

Bottom line is - far more people die at the hands of doctors and pharmaceutical companies than from guns. But we haven't heard a word of protest in the news media that nearly half of the doctors would lie about their fatal mistakes. And the evidence shows that the proportion of liars among the pharmaceutical companies is far, far greater.

Do we throw out a red herring ... or take deep, serious look at the real underlying causes?